A few text messages from San Jose Sharks teammate Joe Thornton helped Logan Couture avoid feeling unwanted when he was the last man standing in the NHL All-Star draft. “Oh yeah, Jumbo is all over me. He loves it,” Couture said with a smile, while noting he also got a few texts from the Sharks training staff on Thursday night.
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Daniel Alfredsson’s kids should be happy. And so should be much of Ottawa and Sweden with the team the Senators captain put together in making his selections in the NHL All-Star draft on Thursday night. Alfredsson completed a double sweep, picking all available Senators and Swedish-born players in building a roster that will take on Zdeno Chara’s team in the skills competition on Saturday…
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Daniel Alfredsson stuck close to home — both his native Sweden and his adopted home of Ottawa — in making his selections in the NHL All-Star draft on Thursday night. His opposing team captain, defenseman Zdeno Chara, took a more offensive approach as the two rosters — Team Alfredsson and Team Chara — were formed.
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says there are three groups showing “serious” interest in buying the Phoenix Coyotes with the intention of keeping the team in Glendale, Ariz. Without going into detail, Bettman revealed there was a third group during his weekly radio show broadcast from Ottawa, where the league’s All-Star Game is being held this weekend.
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The San Jose Sharks have acquired forward Tim Kennedy in a trade with Florida that sends defenseman Sean Sullivan to the Panthers. The Sharks have assigned Kennedy to top development affiliate Worcester in the American Hockey League. The 25-year-old Kennedy has split the season between Florida and San Antonio of the AHL.
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The governor of Massachusetts says a Boston Bruins goalie’s decision to skip a White House ceremony with President Barack Obama honoring the Stanley Cup champions points to the country’s growing loss of “basic courtesy and grace.” Tim Thomas has said he skipped Monday’s event because the federal government was “out of control,” but he blamed both parties.
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Dan Byslma isn’t a doctor, even though the Pittsburgh Penguins’ coach sometimes sounds like one while running down his team’s lengthy injured list. So forgive Bylsma if he can’t say for certain whether star center Evgeni Malkin is fully recovered from the torn ACL in his right knee that prematurely ended the Russian’s 2010-11 season.
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The Montreal Canadiens went into the All-Star break with a blowout victory. The Detroit Red Wings played as though they started their vacation early. David Desharnais had two goals and an assist, and Montreal ended Detroit’s seven-game winning streak with a 7-2 victory over the Red Wings on Wednesday night in the NHL’s final game before the break.
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David Desharnais had two goals and an assist, and the Montreal Canadiens ended Detroit’s seven-game winning streak with a 7-2 victory over the Red Wings on Wednesday night in the NHL’s final game before the league’s All-Star break. Alexei Emelin scored his first NHL goal, and Montreal scored four times in the opening period against Jimmy Howard, who will make his first All-Star game…
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Nicklas Lidstrom’s consecutive-games streak ended at 213 on Wednesday night when the Detroit Red Wings captain sat out against the Montreal Canadiens because of the flu. The 41-year-old defenseman practiced with his teammates earlier Wednesday, but was unable to play in the NHL’s last game before the All-Star break.
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